page_title: UK Student Climate Network
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: UK Student Climate Network / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Young people striking off school as part of the Fridays for Future/Youth Strike 4 Climate movement. At College Green, Bristol, UK.
context_page_description: UK Student Climate Network is a student-led climate justice organisation operating in England and Wales founded by Anna Taylor, then aged 17, on 1 December 2018, along with Ivi Hohmann and Daniela Torres Perez.
  UKSCN are a group of mainly under 18s who have been calling for strikes from school since February 2019, as part of the Youth Strike 4 Climate movement, with the ambition of getting the Government of the United Kingdom and the Welsh Government to take action on the climate crisis by fulfilling their demands. Their strikes have seen thousands of students across England and Wales, with Scottish Youth Climate Strike, and Youth Climate Association Northern Ireland organising youth climate strikes in Scotland, and Northern Ireland respectively, leave or not go to school on Fridays.
context_section_description: UKSCN's first strike was held on 15 February 2019, under the name YouthStrike4Climate. It saw 15,000 English and Welsh school students strike from schools in protest, with strikes in Scotland and Northern Ireland organised by different organisations. 
  This was followed by a second strike on 15 March 2019 which was coordinated with global Youth Strike 4 Climate protests that were held across the world, which saw 1.6 million students go on strike. The organisation's demonstrations have grown in popularity, with an estimated total of 20,000 people in attendance at the demonstration held outside Parliament Square in London on 15 March and 50,000 across England and Wales. The strikes are in solidarity with other Youth Strike 4 Climate protests taking place across the world.
  Strikes have since taken place on:
  12 April, 2019
  24 May 2019
  21 June 2019
  19 July 2019
  20 September 2019 which was a general strike of adults and students; this was the largest climate mobilisation in UK history with an estimated 100,000 people in London alone and an estimated 300,000 people at strikes across the UK. 
  29 November 2019
  14 February 2020
  Digital strikes under lockdown
  The only nationally-coordinated strikes of 2020 were on the 17th of January and the 14th of February. Local group Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate organised and held a strike on the 28th February 2020 that was attended by over 30,000 people along with Greta Thunberg. Any further demonstrations were paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic however youth strikers have been engaging in online actions such as Fridays for Future Digital and Polluters Out's Twitter Storm.
caption: Youth Strikers in Bristol in February 2019
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